IELTS Advanced

This program is taught at QUT College, which is located at QUT's Kelvin Grove campus. The College is where you will spend most of your time going to classes and getting to know other international students. You will receive a QUT Student ID card which will give you access to all QUT's outstanding facilities, making you part of the fun and exciting QUT university community right from the start. Our community offers lifestyle and social opportunities, which will help you to enjoy a richer cultural experience.

Learn from the best

All of our ongoing English language teachers have postgraduate qualifications specialising in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), and a minimum of 15 years' teaching experience, so we can cater to your educational background and cultural perspective.

Schedule

You will spend 25 hours per week in class.

• 20 hours will be face-to-face with your class teacher.
• 5 hours will be studying at your own pace with teacher supervision in Guided Independent Learning (GIL).
• 8:30am - 1pm AEST. Please note times are subject to change.

Assessments

• “Mock” IELTS Exams are conducted in exam conditions in weeks 2-5 and 7-10.
• Students receive individual feedback on every practice IELTS Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking Test they complete during the program.
• All teachers and markers have extensive IELTS Exam experience.

Class Activities

Classes consist of engaging, interactive learning tasks designed to teach students how to: 

• Analyse the format and question types of the four sections of the IELTS Exam.
• Produce best possible responses for the four sections of the IELTS Exam.
• Improve time management to complete every section of the IELTS Exam as efficiently as possible.
• Think critically, brainstorm and plan answers to concrete, abstract, familiar and unfamiliar topics.
• Recognise language and text organisation patterns.
• Understand, retain and use a variety of high-level grammar and vocabulary structures accurately.
• Note-taking techniques when listening and reading for detail or global meaning.
• Deducing meaning of unknown lexical items from grammatical and contextual clues.
• Identify main points for summarisation in written or spoken text.
• Identify and understand a wide range of discourse features relating to linking, time sequencing and referencing.

Careers and outcomes

Program objectives

The objectives of the program are to teach students how to:

• Obtain the skills and strategies required to obtain a 7.0 overall (and required sub-scores) on the IELTS Academic Exam.
• Produce a variety of written genres using language, structure and register of a sufficiently high standard to achieve the required score in Task 1 and Task 2 of the IELTS Academic Writing Module. 
• Communicate fluently, producing extended sequences of spoken discourse of a sufficiently high standard to achieve the required score in the IELTS Academic Speaking Module. 
• Demonstrate understanding, both in terms of content and structure, of a wide variety of formal and informal written genres to a sufficiently high standard to achieve the required score in the IELTS Academic Reading Module.
• Demonstrate understanding, both in terms of content and structure, of a wide variety of formal and informal speaking genres to a sufficiently high standard to achieve the required score in the IELTS Academic Listening Module.